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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1931
Page
5
The ordinance outlines license taxes for motor vehicles including cars, buses, motorcycles, and trucks, plus specific fees for moving pictures, ocular surgeons and opticians, orchard spraying agents, and more. It sets payment timelines, plate display rules, penalties for noncompliance, and revenue earmarks for street maintenance.
The draft text outlines license taxes for piano tuners and repairers, pawn shops, peddlers, physicians, piano agents, pistol sellers, private bankers, theatres, skating rinks, storage firms, real estate agents, restaurants, and other trades. It specifies annual fees, abatement rules, and reporting duties for eating houses, including penalties for noncompliance.
United States health officials announce drastic measures to curb fever spread across certain regions. Leonard I. Miller is elected chancellor commander of Inchester Lodge. Virginia groups press to establish a state women’s college. Governor and Mrs. Burden host staff at the executive mansion in Richmond. Shreveport radio host W Henderson faces a probe over controversial language on KWKH.
January 12 1926 report notes stockholders of the Commercial and Savings Bank luncheon at the George Washington Hotel with C P McVicar presiding and Empire Theatre Orchestra providing music. It lists proposed Farmers and Merchants National Bank directors including Dr William P McGuire John Keating R T Barton H F Byrd W E Cooper Scott Grant H D Puller J S Haldeman George W Haddox M M Lynch H B McCormac C R McCann John J Ridgeway John M Steck.
Fifteen years ago on January 12 1916 R Gray Williams was reelected president of the Handley Board of Trustees Va Hon James Hay Congressman from this district met with President Wilson on a preparedness plan Commander George W Kurtz of Gen Turner Ashby Camp Con-
Mr. G B Morrison of 518 South Main Street, employed at a rubber plant, credits Natex with curing constipation headaches nervousness insomnia and dizziness. He reports improved appetite sleep and digestion after full Natex treatment and urges others to learn about the medicine from the Natex representative at Peoples Service Drug Store.
The Federate Veterans invite all to attend the camp celebration on January 19 marking General Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Hunter M. Kern elected superintendent of Market Street Methodist Church Sunday school, with George H. Eagle as assistant. Dr. O Edward Janney of Baltimore was main speaker at services at Old Hopewell Meeting House.
Contributed by Miles B. Dean argues the labor and agriculture secretaries should reflect practical, farmer-centered views rather than partisan aims. The piece questions a labor secretary’s ties to capital and calls for a dirt farmer in agriculture who truly represents independent farmers.
A Vermont editor faced a $1,000 fine under alien and sedition laws enacted in John Adams' administration, for claiming the President possessed unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp and foolish adulation, though Adams did not approve the action.
Balance sheet shows assets including loans and discounts 27564.96 bonds and securities 27564.96 cash and due from banks 50703.22 and real estate owned 7955.20. Liabilities include deposits 253542.21 and capital and surplus figures 25000.00 1493.48 with directors including E O Larrice M Funk R Sperry Fred Kline notarized by public official.
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